This morning on Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz weighed in on the controversy that has sprung up in the blogosphere since the Brisbane Times article that focused on CNN’s decision not to air Michael’s footage of the 2007 incident that still haunts him. Here is the clip:

IT was somewhere on the outskirts of Gardez, in eastern Afghanistan, that I realised just how much the Michael Ware I knew had changed.

As I sat in a battered minivan speaking on a satellite phone to an editor back in Australia, a particularly filthy and angry-looking Afghan kept pounding on the windows.

To the terror of my translators and driver, the Afghan began screaming foul insults in Pashtu, and making threatening gestures.

"Tell him to get lost," I told my translator, who tried, but shrank back into his seat after receiving a few more glares from the intruder.

As I looked with mounting concern at the thug's broken-nosed features, I detected a smirk and suddenly realised this grubby, bearded apparition, clad in traditional salwar kameez, pakul hat and broken sandals, was the reporter I had sat next to years earlier at Brisbane's Courier-Mail. "As-salamu alaykum (peace be upon you)," he said with a laugh.

Here is the promo airing for Australian Story. Clips from several of his early reports from Afghanistan, most of which we haven’t seen before or have a single still from. Also some family video. Amazing stuff.